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Schenkman Publishing Company was founded
at One Story Street in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1961.
It's founder Alfred Schenkman benefited from a review board of 200 planning
consultants in eight different academic disciplines from major universities
and colleges both in the US and abroad. The company was able to thus analyze
and anticipate the needs, issues, trends and objectives of the academic
community. The sixties were good years for Schenkman, with an outpouring of titles in Black studies and Women's books (years before there were no categories for these in bookstores). Schenkman also pioneered in third world titles in African, |
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| Caribbean, and Southeast Asian studies, as the radical politics that were going on in America at the time. But it became best known for its sociology and social welfare titles. It also became known as a "cause" publisher, fighting for the issues it believed in, and hanging on with "bulldog tenacity" in a business still ruled by giants. "I think of you as David with his slingshot," wrote one planning consultant in those early years, "arrayed against all those Goliaths." | |
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Joe Schenkman, who had worked for his uncle since 1980, continues the fine tradition of academic publishing after Alfred Schenkman's death in 1984. Joe had worked for Schenkman publishing company since 1980, and before that was contributing editor to the National Lampoon "when it was funny." He reorganized the company as Schenkman books, Inc., and relocated to Rochester, Vermont. Joe attended Pratt Institute, the Art Student's League of New York, The (NY) School of Visual Arts, CCV (associates degree), and Johnson State College (bachelor's degree, 2004). He plays in the R&B Soul band Soltura, as well as the Skanktone Jug Band, and books a summer concert series for the Rochester Recreation Committee, is vice-president of the White River Valley Players, and a member of the Rochester Chamber Music Society. From 1996 through 2005, he has produced an annual Harvest Fair for the WRVP on the park in Rochester. |
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